From Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe by Boris Kochno: A romantic reverie in one act by Michel Fokine. Music by Frédéric Chopin, seven piano pieces orchestrated for the Ballets Russes production by Sergei Taneyev, Anatole Liadov, Alexander Glazounov, Nicholas. Tcher-epnine, and Igor Stravinsky. Choreography by Michel Fokine. Décor and costumes by Alexandre Benois. (In 1917, a new set by Carlo Sokrate replaced the Benois décor.) First performance by the Ballets Russes: Théâtre

The following is a chapter from Twyla Tharp's book Push Comes to Shove : Twyla Tharp Foundation Shortly after Sue's Leg, I met with Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, co-directors of American Ballet Theatre, and their associate, Antony Tudor, in a very large, fairly intimidating, sumptuously appointed, and appropriately high-up corner office in a Chase Manhattan Bank building. Wasting no time, Miss Chase asked me to make a ballet for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Martine v

Robert La Fosse, Magali Messac, Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones, Martine van Hamel, and Clark Tippet. Photo by Martha Swope, 1983. "Twyla Tharp's Bach Partita is a pure-dance, plotless work. Focused on formal concerns that deal with structure in music and dance, it also explores a host of movement possibilities. [...] This is the conceptual Tharp at her most sophisticated and at her most elegant. Those who climbed aboard the Tharp bandwagon when she went into an overtly po

Sextet  is a virtuosic pure-dance work for three couples. The choreography is fast, flamboyant and technically rigorous. The couples...